Half-Life: Alyx update released with developer comments

A new update has been released today Half-Life: Alyx, with over three hours of developer commentary covering "every aspect" of the game. game design. Valve stated that design commentary was originally supposed to be included in the game at launch, but due to the COVID-19 outbreak, the company was forced to delay the feature.

The update adds 147 "points of interest" to Half-Life: Alyx, marked with floating typefaces, in which the developers talk about aspects of the game, including design, graphics, animation, rendering, and sound. To access them, just grab your headset and put it on - remember, this is a VR game, so that's it.

The commentary is also subtitled in multiple languages, including French, German, Japanese, Korean, Castilian Spanish, Latin American Spanish, Russian, Polish, Traditional Chinese, and Simplified Chinese.

You will need to start a new game to access the commentary, and Valve strongly recommends that you complete the game completely before enabling the mode, as there are "significant spoilers". He also hinted that the audio level might not be as ideal or even as one might expect:

Like many people in the world, we all work from home, meaning that instead of using our comfortable high-quality recording studio to the office, we recorded our voice-over commentary in the closet and blanket forts around Greater Seattle.< /p>

The update also adds in-game localization for Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Norwegian, Romanian, Swedish, Thai and Turkish and adds the ability to change the behavior of stairs to make them "more realistic".